"Who can know what effect our smallest acts of kindness may have on others? Perhaps the most important contribution of Mother Teresa, who serves the most destitute and neglected, is that she instills in those who have been abandoned the realization that they too are loved."
~ Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj ~
Panda Pig's Peace Sanctuary exists so that abandoned, neglected, sick, and dying guinea pigs may experience that they, too, are cherished and loved!

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Song of the Open Road

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose."~ Walt Whitman"Song of the Open Road" from "Leaves of Grass"Squirrel is OUT! Before him lie paths between cages toexplore, piggies whose scents must fill his lungs, haythrough which to forage, tunnels of flannel and sticksthrough which to race!O, Squirrel, I am such a fine boy! Poos to identify then leavemy own as proof I lived well and thrived here! Treats leftbehind to discover and digest, my happy feet and curioustoes to travel throughout the Sanctuary in search of whatcan never be found in my Habitat: FREEDOM!Roaming is my Middle Name, Squirrel-Roaming my calling,so off I go, naming some things, allowing more to remainNameLess in essence for what is a name, anyway?Only what people call things, but can "hay" define the taste, the texture, a long stem with a flower on the tip: a hay-flower Divine to eat, hay to chew, nosh, or - inYumYum's case, hay within which to dig a burrow,a burrow of comfort in his woven basket! It soothes him.He remembers His Wildness from our Ancestors,and when I am on the Open RoadI, too, remember them, for we are descendants fromthe Andes in South America where we once roamed freebut not without danger -We roamed in herds, they say descended from muchlarger animals called Capybaras: I dispute this!We are too perfect exactly the way we are tohave evolved from anything one might call "better" -for there is no better, no worse, Here five guinea pigs live with our own quirks,our own differences, our own individualities,united in our love for one another, food, mom,and The Song of the Open Road!~Thus spoke Squirrel